Watson
Watson v. Diaz
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 KENNETH EARL WATSON, Case No. 20-cv-06318-SI
Plaintiff,
ORDER ON INITIAL REVIEW
v. Re: Dkt. No. 1 RALPH DIAZ, Defendant.
12 This pro se action for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 was filed on behalf of Kenneth Earl Watson, an inmate at the California State Prison – Sacramento. The petition is now before the court for review pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2243 and Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the United States District Courts. 17 BACKGROUND The petition provides the following information: Watson was convicted in San Mateo County Superior Court of first degree murder with sentence enhancements and was sentenced in January 2009 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He appealed. The California Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment of conviction in July 2010. Watson apparently did not file a petition for review until 2019, at which time it was rejected as…